Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Milston-Bulford Down

A Scheduled Monument in Bulford, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.204 / 51°12'14"N

Longitude: -1.7176 / 1°43'3"W

OS Eastings: 419821.536838

OS Northings: 145013.823612

OS Grid: SU198450

Mapcode National: GBR 4ZS.JJS

Mapcode Global: VHC2N.5ZTW

Entry Name: Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Milston-Bulford Down

Scheduled Date: 27 January 1965

Last Amended: 6 February 1990

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1009470

English Heritage Legacy ID: 10168

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Bulford

Built-Up Area: Bulford Camp

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Bulford St Leonard

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

Details

A bowl barrow, c.23m diameter. It is now flat topped with an uneven surface
and traces of a ditch, overall diameter c.29m.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

The most complete and extensive survival of chalk downland
archaeological remains in central southern England occurs on Salisbury
Plain, particularly in those areas lying within the Salisbury Plain
Training Area. These remains represent one of the few extant
archaeological "landscapes" in Britain and are considered to be of
special significance because they differ in character from those in
other areas with comparable levels of preservation. Individual sites on
Salisbury Plain are seen as being additionally important because the
evidence of their direct association with each other survives so well.

Some 470 round barrows, funerary monuments dating to the late Neolithic
and early Bronze Age, are known to have existed in the Salisbury Plain
Training Area, many grouped together as cemeteries. The total includes
some 70 barrows of rare types. Such is the quality of the survival of
the archaeological landscape, over 300 of these barrows have been
identified as nationally important.

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